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The FBI ‘Seeking Information’ about Benghazi poster features 29 photographs of individuals who were on the ground at the Special Mission Compound during the attacks Sept. 11, 2012. (Snip: FBI)A car bomb has exploded in Benghazi near the Foreign Ministry building. The attack has turned media’s attention back to Libya although The US Report has consistently covered the country’s chaos with some experts warning Libya is again threatened by civil war.

Tweeted Sept. 6, 2013; still waiting. (Snip: @TheUSReport via Twitter)If you want news about Libya, you have to dig for it. When you find it, the news is mostly negative. The latest: Tripoli has been without running water since Friday. Tripoli has been without running water since Tuesday, Sept. 3. [See editor's note at bottom]

Many Syrians have fled the civil war, seeking refuge in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Photo: UNHCR/G. GubaevaWhen President Barack Obama decided to get the U.S. involved in the Libya civil war, Congress was not part of the decision beforehand. The outcome in Libya—a country “awash” in weapons and U.S. properties including intelligence files being breached—remains controversial.

Snip: War Powers Act; Cornell University Law SchoolBill Maher is channeling his fellow extremists on Twitter by claiming President Barack Obama restored the Constitution “re war powers.” Maher, by the yardstick of “progressives” also disrespected the president by calling him “Barry.”

Photo: Still shot/Fox News broadcastAmericans have the freedom to speak out about political issues and we also have a direct conduit for our opinions, the U.S. House of Representatives. As President Barack Obama contemplated bombing Syria, a number of unusual consequences occurred, and he accomplished something unprecedented in his presidency.

Columnist Mona Charen cited Kerry's remarks about Iraq in Feb., 2003. (Snip: Herald-Journal). What a difference near-absolute power makes. President Barack Obama’s secretary of state John Kerry just made the case for military action against Syria while Democrats’ minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi lobbied for the same.

For the Democrats, the narrative wanders from humanitarian grounds to national security issues.

Democrat consultant Pat Caddell (right) shown here with President Jimmy Carter in 1977, called Tom Donilon the 'leaker-in-chief.' [White House Photograph]Imagine a Republican appointee going on numerous talk shows to repeat a fictional story about why U.S. property was attacked and Americans were killed in Libya. We all know what would happen if that Republican, instead of being penalized for falsehoods, earned a promotion, right?